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So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
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We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
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So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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girlfriend, i can NOT believe you missed it....dang, me and yah-von had a tradition of frozen mojitos while watching illuminations. hope they will keep having mojitos there....yum yum
FIL is in banking and says good time to buy if can get low price on good house. My Dad says same.
Highnyness, we move every 3-4 years b/c of DH job. First house we were in 20 months, second 4 years (just sold b/c market broke even).
Not in much of funtastic mood today. Can't seem to get self to get out of house. Need to get DS's meds refilled & food for next week. Boys in house are stuck on Blackberries.
tons of Charleen for finding a house. Grumpy and I did not buy a house until 1 year before he retired from the USAF, before that we had either rented or lived in base housing. This month will be 9 years to the day that we moved in, we closed on 30 Oct 2000.
can't focus long enough to read a trip report. Trying to read trip reports to cheer self up.
found house I want. GORGEOUS master bath and kitchen. looks like house you would find in northwest. But just not sure. want everything. xanax time i think.
tons of Charleen for finding a house. Grumpy and I did not buy a house until 1 year before he retired from the USAF, before that we had either rented or lived in base housing. This month will be 9 years to the day that we moved in, we closed on 30 Oct 2000.
We bought our first house in '96, Sulley retired in '98.
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oh, DH is at 21 yrs time in service.
Sulley retired at 22 years 4 months. It was quite an adjustment!
Good evening world! I am having a MoneyPenny as my FAB, though it's not really F.... and we are doing beef and chicken skewers on the grill with rice and grilled veggies and grilled pineapple. Birthday cake for dessert. We are having DGD's 2nd b'day today since DS is heading back to Iraq in a couple of weeks. He won't be here for her big day.
Tomorrow, we get to help DS2 paint his new house before they move in! It's been a busy weekend for us.
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We bought our first house in '96, Sulley retired in '98.
Sulley retired at 22 years 4 months. It was quite an adjustment!
Good evening world! I am having a MoneyPenny as my FAB, though it's not really F.... and we are doing beef and chicken skewers on the grill with rice and grilled veggies and grilled pineapple. Birthday cake for dessert. We are having DGD's 2nd b'day today since DS is heading back to Iraq in a couple of weeks. He won't be here for her big day.
Tomorrow, we get to help DS2 paint his new house before they move in! It's been a busy weekend for us.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
Oh that dinner sounds yummy, Stephanie tons of for painting tomorrow!!!
DH plans on staying until 24 or 26. At least until DS is out of HS. So this will probably be our last duty station, but not likely to retire here. This area is well, like stepping 10 years back in time. Likely to retire in NW Florida between Panama City and Ft. Walton Beach. Or Orlando if job appears. But not GA.
Yummy...well my Grumpy (We don't have the lisence plate..only a hat!) is out mowing the lawn for the last time! It's a good way to mulch all those leaves too! I look out the window and sigh...only eight more weeks until vacation!
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Kristen,
Oh great dinner I haven't had Baked Alaska in a long time and how appropriate since Jenifer says it is snowing in Anchorage!!!!
Yes it is snowing and has been all day to some degree. It's just after 8:00 here and still at it. Mowing and mulching is the last thing on our minds, even though it didn't get done this year!!!
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this sounds like the military wives club.....i can't imagine all the moving around you ladies have done...bless your hearts....
I was an Air Force Brat - Does that count?????
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DH plans on staying until 24 or 26. At least until DS is out of HS. So this will probably be our last duty station, but not likely to retire here. This area is well, like stepping 10 years back in time. Likely to retire in NW Florida between Panama City and Ft. Walton Beach. Or Orlando if job appears. But not GA.
That was our original plan, but a great job offer came up. I definitely didn't see us staying HERE! But life has a way sometimes!!
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this sounds like the military wives club.....i can't imagine all the moving around you ladies have done...bless your hearts....
It's been fun if a lot of work. Though it was the only life I knew as my Dad did 20 in the Marine Corps. So I was used to all the moving and it actually felt quite weird at the three year mark after Sulley retired and we DIDN'T move! It was wonderful too, I got to live in Italy for three years, I spent 6 years total in Iceland, I traveled to Germany and Bavaria, Austria, stuff I probably would have never been able to do.
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I was an Air Force Brat - Does that count?????
Absolutely! Sulley was an AF brat too...though we don't mention it in polite company
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There are more of us around, to include brats, that one could imagine.
Good Morning!
Looks like I am the early riser!
Ah, good morning! I was up in the WDW section reading about the imminent demise of Pal Mickey. If there isn't one left when I get there in December I will kick myself! I dithered back and forth last time and now I am going to be sorry!
Sulley is still sleeping and it's just me and the furbabies up. All the houses are dark too. You can sure tell we live in an area with a lot of govt/military families!
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so much for a good dinner. probably have steak & potatoes later.
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I haven't had Baked Alaska in a long time and how appropriate since Jenifer says it is snowing in Anchorage!!!!
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